Spacefleet Updates

The UK private space organisation “Spacefleet” has a new website at http://spacefleet.co.uk. The organisation also has several new news items and more imagery of the EARL spaceship design.

Founded in 2004, Spacefleet’s goal is developing a novel low-cost launch system for human and cargo to LEO.

EARL. Copyright Spacefleet

The Business Plan

The business plan for the Spacefleet EARL project is now attracting serious interest from some potential investors.

As the project progresses they expect to have much more to report, shortly. Meanwhile, some new artwork has being produced.

The Managing Director of Spacefleet met with two of the three international collaborators at the Space Conference in Dneproptrovsk, Ukraine in April (17th-19th) to discuss the project in finer detail. The meeting concluded with general assent that project was sound, that the collaborators were willing to continue it, and that funding would be sought for a mission analysis, forming the initial phase of project development.

Here are some examples:

EARL. Copyright Spacefleet

EARL Separation

Contractor Found For Scale EARL Model

They have recently found a contractor and agreed terms on building a scale model of the EARL spacecraft.

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